Oscar Predictions: The Birth of a Nation and NYFF update

We are now past phase 1 of the fall festival circuit, which we chatted about on the latest podcast, and are now in the NYFF phase 2, so it’s as good a time as any to update predictions. But first some analysis: 1. Remember how I said this was an awesome year for Black movies?

Film Review: Goat

There’s really no easy way to start off a review of Goat, the wonderfully intense film directed by Andrew Neel. Particularly after you’ve just come from under its compressive force, as I have. Watching people be terrible to each other is a fun time to a point, so what do you do when those characters

Book Review: Victuals by Ronni Lundy

One of the things that’s most awesome about cooking is that recipes, however you find them, seem to have a journey. Whether its things that have been passed down through your family or some you find online, food and how it is made and prepared is a community resource with a history. You can connect the

Film Review: Blair Witch

Scene: 1999 Century Theaters in Pinole, CA. A young impressionable young man was on his way back to the bathroom to see his screening of The Iron Giant. However, the screening was sharing a marquee with another film and in his haste to return, he actually stumbled into another movie. That young man was me and

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Oscar Predictions: This Could Be Black as Hell

These are pre-Toronto pics that took me eons to do, and will probably drastically change. I also don’t “really care” about these, if you’ve seen my recent rants about these. One of the coolest things about this Oscar season is that for the first time in recent memory I truly feel like the films are

Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky

As someone who grew up as an underrepresented minority and wanted to be in a STEM field, I know how important it is to see people who look like you accomplishing things. Women in Science provides this in a really awesome way through the curation of the subjects and some wonderful illustrations. I was a

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